In One Century
part III

Markets sag
And the times becomes like slag;
Melting down
All the town,
Despair was at every turn.
Surviving
Still striving,
A daughter’s lesson to learn.
Mother’s care
Through despair
Carried both to better times.
Childhood rhymes
Daughter now grown,
~~~ better times?



Gloom
to old Poetry
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